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Link to tweet
"During the 2016 presidential election, one of the two major candidates labored under the shadow of a criminal investigation by the F.B.I. That candidate was Hillary Clinton. As we now know, though voters had little reason to apprehend it at the time, there were actually two investigations underway and, while the probe into Clintons mishandling of emails played out in public, the more serious probe of Donald Trumps secret political and financial connections with Russia remained largely unknown until well after the voting had concluded."
pbmus
(12,422 posts)If you want to be a Dudley then be a doright and tell all...the Big Con was on...and I am still not sure who orchestrated the coup...?
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)renegades out of control. These quotes expose their signature attitude, but others did back then also.
Russia? I don't leap to think the worst of even them, but hard-core RWers keep being proven bad in so many ways these days. Seriously, extremism is not compatible with honesty or good judgement, and they've become extreme. Your comment made their counterparts running the NRA come to mind.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)blm
(113,062 posts)triron
(22,003 posts)Seriously.
SharonAnn
(13,775 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 8, 2019, 12:41 AM - Edit history (1)
The reason I hate conservative Catholics is that they support autocrats because theyre fascists.
Also, the Legion of Christ.
My Chilean niece is a member and was studying for her masters degree at Columbia in New York. When we visited New York she would only meet us for lunch because of the rats. When I asked, she explained that at the opulent Opus Dei facility in New York where she lived, women had to enter through the back door in the alley. And at night there were lots of rats in the alley. She had been conditioned to think that it was acceptable that men could enter through the front door and that women had to enter through the alley door. Sent chills down my spine.
So I started researching them. Big supporters of Pinochet in Chile, Fujimori in Peru, Franco in Spain. And several members of our Supreme Court. Scary.
Most members and supporters of Opus Dei will not admit it to outsiders. Numeraries are not allowed to read anything that is not approved by their spiritual director. No watching the news, no newspapers, no visits and holidays with family, no friends outside Opus Dei. Its a cult, a very wealthy and influential cult.
triron
(22,003 posts)SharonAnn
(13,775 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)One of the reasons I keep waiting for him to do some evil stuff.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Yeah, I know. That's never going to happen. It's only an issue if you are a Trump.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)that the guy they helped win has crapped all over them, their colleagues and their organization ...
SharonAnn
(13,775 posts)Dan
(3,562 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)Poiuyt
(18,124 posts)SharonAnn
(13,775 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)that play to whatever tRump's shadow government aka Waffen SS, want done.
Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)This is why we cant have nice things.
Bill Barr: The Cover-Up General
"At the center of the criticism is the chief articulator of Bush's imperial presidency," we reported in 1992, "the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad"
by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019
Snip...
For the next two years, as chief of the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel, Barr played a key role in shaping Richard Thornburghs stormy tenure as attorney general. In a job that was essentially political, he helped maintain the administrations ideological purity by screening out judicial candidates who werent conservative enough. He also drafted two key documents rationalizing the U.S. invasion of Panama and the seizure of General Manuel Noriega.
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In mid 1990, as Thornburghs own problems with Congress deepened, Barr was tapped to run interference, and was named deputy attorney general. The appointment came just in time for him to draft another landmark tract for the administration, the legal pretext for the undeclared war against Iraq. It would have made any Nixonite proud. Explaining it later to Congress, Barr said he believed there was a gray zone between a declared offensive war and an emergency defensive action where there is latitude for the president, if he believes that the vital interests of the United States are threatened by foreign military attack, there is room for him to respond.
Barr did not make clear how the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait equaled an attack on vital American interests, but to his credit, at the moment of decision itself, he did counsel the president to soften the impact of his unilateral rush to war by seeking a declaration of congressional support. That piece of advice, much akin to Johnsons leveraging of the Tonkin Gulf resolution, helped to keep the naysayers at bay.
Barrs service to the administration, however, wasnt limited simply to such flashes of political savvy. In 1991 he became active in stone-walling the Iraqgate and the BCCI investigations and further gratified conservatives by keeping up the tattoo on their favorite hot-button issues. Embracing immigration policy as his own, he helped craft an exception rule that automatically barred HIV-positive sufferers from entering the country. Civil libertarians charged illegal discrimination and even racism, since many of those excluded were black Haitians. Barr assured Congress that the policy was meant only to keep out people who might be thrown back on public welfare.
Flogging another conservative hobbyhorse, Barr fought hard as deputy AG to keep federal courts from expanding their right to review state criminal convictions on writs of habeas corpus. As a devout Catholic, he also pandered to the antiabortion crowd, even torquing the law in August 1991 to advance their crusade. The challenge came when a federal judge in Wichita issued an order barring anti-abortion demonstrators from blocking access to a clinic. The Justice Department intervened to try to force a lifting of the ban. Later asked about this by Congress, Barr gave an exquisitely technical rationale, asserting that though the demonstrators were lawbreakers . . . treading on other peoples rights, they should be dealt with in state court, not federal court thus the federal judges order was unenforceable.
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https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
Barr is the rock which covers all manner of the vilest treasons.
SharonAnn
(13,775 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)Washington (CNN)Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani now denies that he was told by FBI agents that the bureau was reviewing newly discovered emails potentially related to Hillary Clinton's use of a private server before the review was publicly revealed.
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https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/rudy-giuliani-hillary-clinton-email-fbi/index.html
yaesu
(8,020 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)dchill
(38,497 posts)But it's all about money and power. It ALWAYS IS with these pin-pricks.
Dan
(3,562 posts)ms liberty
(8,577 posts)Opus Dei always seems to be hanging out with the fascists and authoritarians. Hmmm...
still_one
(92,192 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)The rethuglicon party is deeply corrupt and will only continue to get worse with time. 40% of American voters will believe anything the rethuglicon propaganda machine tells them, think lying-cheating-stealing is OK under any circumstances and are racists and evil as hell.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)The FBI installed Trump into office by inducing Comey to send his letter.
And no one is investigating. Its a crime.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Cant be trusted to do their job professionally.
pecosbob
(7,539 posts)DFW
(54,387 posts)Their arrogant name is Latin for "the work of God," and they are as conditioned to believe it as much as the Hitler Youth was conditioned to believe that the Aryans really WERE the master race. If you can find some films of some of their events in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, you will see them in white hoods and robes that resemble the KKK. I actually wonder which organization was the first to use them.